- the original newssync topic was getting a little long, so I have started a new one for the 1.5.x series

There has been a lot of changes for version 1.5.x most importantly:
- UI via the phpbb admin section to controlling newssync
- web-based install
- many speed improvements
- addition for UNIX systems if you don't have CRON capabilities
- support for phpnuke and postnuke
- configuration settings now stored in the database

** RC2
- no code changes from RC1
- if you were using B7 -- I did make a mistake, you do need to tweek the schema (download newssync_1.5.0_beta_upgrades.tar and run appropriate SQL script) -- note same goes for previous 1.5.0Betas.

** RC1
- fixed issue where new posts within phpBB would not always be sent to usenet
- no additional upgrade information from B7 (just copy files to correct locations)
- previous from B7 see upgrade instructions below...

wineknow wrote:
First Beta Release Version 1.5.0 beta 1
- NOT for use in a production system
- First Beta Release, so expect some trouble with install and upgrade
- read the README file in the tar file

First thanks for your effort and keeping promises on its lasting development .
Through ACP, it returns a successfully installed message. But except the install menu item in the ACP, I do not find other menu items to control NewsSync while there is not documentation about how it works.

somehow newsync thinks the first one is Jul 26, 2003 - 12:44 AM
so the the reply got listed before the original post.

Does newssync still thread with other than the thread id? If I'm reading your comment correctly 1.5 now uses the date/time along with the subject to thread properly?

As I see it that's still a problem. First, when importing threads from the usenet newssync now inserts them in thread order, which causes problems for those trying to follow a conversation along in the forum. Posts should be added to the end of a thread in a forum, in whatever order they're inserted. The order really doesn't matter. However, when exporting posts from the forum out to the usenet, it should only be done via the thread id of the post one responded to. Anything else can, and does, cause problems in threading in the usenet. It gets to be a real problem when people change the subject and such.

sorry for the confusion. let me re-phrase the issue. both first and second post are a reply to the original post. since usenet has a tree structure while phpbb has a flat model, should phpbb list them as orignal, first, second or orignal, second, first? That's why we need to compare the time between first and second.

Any idea what is causing this on each and every Newsync Admin page at the top

Warning: ob_start(): output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used twice in /home/lazer/public_html/phpbb/admin/newssync_header.php on line 43

Also, when viewing the NewsSync Console page, the "Output" area is stretching the window thus creating a horizontal scroll bar and needing to scroll to the right to see, then again the phpbb copyright gets pushed to the right also. I temporarily solved this by changing the following 2 lines in newsync_session_log.tpl both to just:

And also again I just realized that my host thought it would be cool to disable SSH access w/o telling me so now I can't set the owner permissions on /newssync thus I had to just CHMOD to 777 and the dir.s within /newssync to get this to work at all. Any way around that yet as I don't like leaving it this way for security reasons?

I had a few hangs when initially doing the sync (Setting for initial was set to 100). Later I succeeded after purging out completely both my 2 usenet forums. But when done it seemed to pickup real old dated topics (probably the oldest as in clear back to May and none this month) 8O So I re-purged and set the initial to 0 for both forums-feeds. Hehe, now I'm nearly 1 1/2 hours into it and its definetly retreiving and also grabbing some in July so far but oh boy this could be a problem even if it is a one time deal because I imagine this script will be running the best part of the day to catch up to both groups as one contains 11,000 + and the other like 42,000 and I'm only up to about 4,000 posts in the first forum but I figured the way this is working now, I had to do a total dump to have a shot at getting the latest dated posts from now on

Note: Before I re-purged and left the setting @ 100, I tried several times running again from the admin console but it would never find anything newer than May

qnx wrote:
if I change the name of the forum that is synced with newsgroup, will it cause trouble to newsync? I seem to remember the old 1.0 version has the forum name hardcoded in one of the configs...

should have no impact.
the database now stores the config settings and it no longer syncs to a forum name but a forum id (like the rest of phpbb), so if you rename a forum nothing should break...